Climate Change


Opinion

We Need DePIN to Get to Net-Zero Emissions

To achieve the net-zero goal ASAP, we must find a way to actively integrate end consumers into the energy market. The answer is Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, says Kai Siefert, founder and CEO of Combinder, a user-owned distributed energy network.

The non-profit Digital Energy Council asks that the EIA also consider the positive impacts of crypto mining on U.S. energy infrastructure, in a response to the agency's open request for comment. (Matthew Henry/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Web3 Could Revolutionize Climate Finance

Grassroots crypto initiatives can close the "climate funding gap," incentivize a new generation of climate projects and help finance the optimistic ideas for fighting climate governments and institutions have not.

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Consensus Magazine

Ghost From the Well: Is Crypto Mining With Associated Gas Better for the Environment?

Oil and gas companies are keen to use gas that would normally be flared off to run bitcoin mining operations. But environmentalists claim the practice merely perpetuates the use of fossil fuels.

Gas flaring / Getty Images

Finance

Startup Arbol Unveils AI and Blockchain-Powered Climate Insurance Platform

The market for climate insurance is estimated to triple in the next decade.

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Finance

Climate Finance Firm Solid World Opens Forward Carbon Liquidity Pools With Polygon

The pool will enable the purchase of mangrove-based carbon credits.

Mangroves can store four times as much carbon as other ainforests, according to the WWF. (Jonathan Wilkins/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol Piloting a Waste Gas Methodology With Miner Crusoe Energy

Crypto miners, like Crusoe, use gas that would otherwise be wasted and minimize methane emissions.

Crusoe Energy President Cully Cavness (left) and CEO Chase Lochmiller (right) (Crusoe)

Finance

MakerDAO Constitution Would Fund Sustainability Efforts With 20K MKR Tokens From Reserves, Emissions

With “scientific sustainability” as a core principle, an early draft of the proposed Maker constitution would, if approved, play an active role in combating climate change by allocating $14 million worth of MKR tokens to its Scientific Sustainability Fund.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana Foundation, Ripple, GBBC and Others Form Partnership to Promote Crypto Solutions for Climate Change

Climate solutions "makes the most sense" for real-world applications of blockchain, a co-founder of the initiative told CoinDesk.

Key members of the BxC at a panel in Davos 2023. From left to right; Sandra Ro of GBBC, Dave Ford of Eqo Networks, Ken Weber of Ripple, Anna Lerner of Climate Collective, Gregory Landua of Regen Network, Daniel Hwang of BxCi and Chris Krohn of BxC. (Image credit: GBBC)

Opinion

ReFi Is Going Mainstream

The successful Ethereum Merge is just the start of a growing movement to leverage crypto rails to fight climate change.

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Tech

Ethereum Software Firm ConsenSys Co-Launches Ethereum Climate Platform

The initiative aims to address Ethereum’s excess energy consumption before it went through the Merge.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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